Insulated undergarment



May 5, 1953 M. s. HERZOG INSULATED UNDERGARMENT Filed May 19, 1950 m w m m MIRIAM 5. HERZoc-z- W m M A. YU B Patented Maya, 1953 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE INSULATED UNDERGARMENT Miriam S. Hcrzog, Riverdale, N. Y.

Application May 19, 1950, Serial No. 162,839

1 Claim. 1

This invention relates to new and useful improvements in womens apparel garments; and. more particularly, the aim is to provide a novel and valuable such garment, of the underwear class, and of the kind which includes a skirt portion or constitutes a skirt.

According to the present invention, the new garment at its skirt or skirt portion incorporates a plural-ply sheet structure whereby atits exterior the garment may be of silk, rayon, nylon or of an analogous textile material and at its interior will be inclusive of a textile material capacitated to prevent the ordinary discomforting if not painful action of the first-named textile material relative to the legs of the wearer of the garment during cold. winter weather.

The function of the second-named textile material is to insulate the first-named textile material, which has the property of rapidly becoming very cold throughout while being worn in very cold weather, and more especially to insulate the inner side of said first-named textile material all over its surfaces lying opposite the legs of the wearer of the garment, relative to her legs, no matter with what strides she walks or whatever at any instant her posture be. Thus, the new article of manufacture provided by the present invention may be said to be, and may hereinafter be referred to as, an insulated garment; as, for instance, an insulated slip, if the garment is the familiar underwear garment including a skirt component and also a bodice component, and if the insulation feature be applied to the skirt component.

The second-named textile material is flannel, fiannelette, or the like. Flannel, as the word is employed with strict correctness, is of wool; while flannclette, as the word is employed with strict correctness, is of cotton. Due to the napped characteristic of either, this characteristic is usually at both sides of flannel but usually only at one side of flannelette, good heat insulation is afforded by such a textile material, even when so relatively loosely woven as to be of high flexibility and to be able to be locally temporarily compressed to very little thickness, with the consequence that undesirable bulb is not added to the garment.

For further comprehension of the invention, and of the objects and advantages thereof, reference will be had to the following description and accompanying drawings, and to the appended claim in which the various novel features of the invention are more particularly set forth.

In the accompanying drawings forming a material part of this disclosure:

Fig. l is a side elevational View, partially broken away and partially. in section, illustrativeof a now favored embodiment of the new undergarment when constituting a slip.

Fig. 2 shows said slip in front elevation.

Fig. 3 is a bottom plan view of the garment of Figs. 1 and 2.

Fig. 4, on an enlarged scale, is a fragmentary detail sectional view taken on the line 4- of Fig. 1.

Fig. 5 is a perspective view illustrative of one now favored embodiment of the new undergarment when constituted merely as an underskirt or petticoat.

Fig. 6 is a similar view, illustrative of another embodiment of the class shown in Fig. 5.

It will be noted that only in Fig. 4 are textile fabric thicknesses delineated in the conventionally schematic way to indicate pictorially warp and weft. In the other views, in order to make the drawing as clear as possible, such indications are dispensed with.

Referring now to the drawing in detail, and first to Figs. 1 through 4, at it is indicated a slip, that is, a womans underwear garment incorporating a skirt H and also a bodice [2. The waist line of the garment Ill is shown in dot and dash at [4.

Assuming that the garment l0, and particularly the skirt l l is made of silk, rayon, nylon or of an analogous readily chillable textile material, such skirt is heat-insulated according to the invention by adding thereto and at its interior surface a sheet element It of flannel, flannelette or the like which is heat-insulative pursuant to the invention.

Said element I5 is desirably sheath-like, and so (see especially Fig. 3) is fully tubular, with such tubulation in agreement with that resulting from the cut of the silk, rayon or like material at the skirt ll.

Desirably, also, with the insulation element I5 extended down say to the very bottom of the skirt ii, said element [5 at its upper end terminates some distance below the waistline I l; thus eliminating even the remotest possible chance of adding even a very slight extra thickness or tendency toward bunchiness at the portion of the garment which is to embrace the small of the waist.

The element 15 may be attached in any suitable or convenient way to the remainder of the skirt II, as by use of an adhesive, or, as illustrated, by circumferential lines of stitching l6 and H, or otherwise.

In Fig. 5, the parts to which are applied reference numerals with primes added correspond, respectively, to the parts to which have been applied the same reference numerals but without primes. Here, as already stated, a petticoat is shown. The petticoat l I is illustrated as including an upper structure in the nature of a waist band, 18, so located as to embrace the small oi the waist. It will be noted that the upper limit of the insulating element I is arranged so as merely to extend up to the bottom limit of the structure [8.

In Fig. 6, the parts to which are applied reference numerals with double primes added correspond, respectively, to the parts to which have been applied the same reference numerals Without primes. Here, also, as already stated, a petticoat is shown; but here, however, the insulating element I5" is illustrated as extended up to the very top of the garment.

' Instead of forming the garment to have a separate lining, the garment could be formed of a single piece of material having a smooth outer face as in the case of rayon, nylon, silk or the like and could have an inner side of a fiannelette naturewhich type of material is generally known in the clothing industry. If desired, the inner face of the garment could have the fiannelette over its entire inner surface or only on that portion of the inner face below the waist of the garment.

' While I have illustrated and described the preferred embodiments of my invention, it is to be understood that I do not limit myself to the precise constructions herein disclosed and the right is reserved to all changes and modifications coming Within the scope of the invention as defined in the appended claim.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by United States Letters Patent is:

A womans slip for use under a dress comprising a body of appealing fabric of the kind to chill exposed flesh when engaged therewith, said body having a bodice portion, a skirt portion, and a waist portion, shoulder straps secured to the bodice portion, a lining of flannelette on the inside of the skirt portion extending from a point below the waist portion to the bottom end edge of the skirt portion, and rows of stitching securing said lining to the skirt portion at the top and bottom ends of the lining.

MIRIAM S. HERZOG.

References Cited in the file of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS Number Name Date 1,002,579 Goodrich Sept. 5, 1911 1,285, 44 Sollen Nov. 19, 1918 2,258,277 Bullinger Oct. 7, 1941 2,466,806 Harrison Apr. 12, 1949 

